HBO’s cancellation of “Westworld” and the following elimination of the present from Max is commonly cited for instance of how hostile the streaming panorama might be for artists. However the present’s co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Pleasure aren’t prepared to surrender on the opportunity of ending it.
In a brand new interview with The Wrap to advertise his new Prime Video sequence “Fallout,” Nolan defined that he’s nonetheless holding out hope that they’ll have an opportunity to finish their deliberate story in some unspecified time in the future. The showrunner mentioned that he and Pleasure gained’t reveal any particulars about how the present would have ended as a result of they don’t wish to spoil any hypothetical future seasons.
“Our philosophy from the start was you make sure that every installment, every chapter must be considerably full, inform a great story and you then get an opportunity to maintain going,” Nolan mentioned. “However Lisa and I did have an structure for the sequence and I’m massive on getting an opportunity to complete these items. I feel our hope continues to be someplace down the road [for] an opportunity to revisit that story, and I’d hate to have spoiled it now if we get an opportunity to take action.”
Nolan and Pleasure’s well-known refusal to disclose something in regards to the present’s deliberate ending even extends to forged members. Evan Rachel Wooden lately revealed that she requested the creators to inform her what her character’s arc would have been however couldn’t persuade them to spill any of their secrets and techniques.
“I requested the creators after we bought canceled, ‘Are you able to please simply inform me the way you’re going to finish?’ They usually wouldn’t inform me,” she mentioned in a February 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I feel as a result of, I don’t know, possibly someway, someway, in some iteration we’ll get to complete it, however I nonetheless don’t know. It does nonetheless hold me up at evening.”